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April 7, 2011

Gmail Lets You Disable Auto-Adding Contacts

As previously announced, Gmail added a setting that lets you disable automatically saving email addresses to your contacts. Go to the Settings page, find the section "Create contacts for auto-complete" and you'll notice that the following option is enabled by default: "When I send a message to a new person, add them to Other Contacts so that I can auto-complete to them next time". Now you can disable this feature and select "I'll add contacts myself".

This is one of the features from a long changelog of small improvements. "Refresh" is now a button, the keyboard shortcuts guide is now available even if keyboard shortcuts are disabled (just press Shift+?), Gmail shows more useful warnings when you leave out the "." in ".com" from an email address and there are fewer warnings when you reply to a message in the Trash.

18 comments:

what i would really like is a reminder from google that I am receiving an email from a sender who is not in my contacts and then have the option to add this new sender to a particular folder within 'contacts'

But what do I do for people who were already added to my chat profile. I remove them but I still get notifications when any of them come online and I don't want that. I don't want to block these people from my Google+ page. I just want them deleted from my chat page.

I cannot find this section either. Also, I want to know what to do about friends from Google+ that were added into my gmail chat list already. I keep getting notifications that these friends came online but I don't want those notifications. It seems the only way to remove that is to block these people from Google+. I don't want to block them, I just want to delete them from my chat.

I have checked the "I'll add contacts myself" in general settings, but it STILL auto adds names to my gmail chat list.

Can't tell you the number of times I've hovered over their name in the chat list, then selected 'never show' and then logged out of email - and google - entirely - but when I log back in, their are those damn names STILL in the chat list and it's pissing me off.